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UPDATE

LA'S DOPEST ATTORNEY IS COMING OUT MONDAY NIGHT

Last year, I think it was, I was asked to be on a show for Queer TV



Sandra Bernhardt was the co-host, and she asked me questions about the world of criminal law. I loved being on the show. The transvestite who did the news report embraced me and everyone treated me as if I was a hero. I also loved the format; during commercial breaks these great girls dressed like strippers/cage dancers did a little dance. The whole atmosphere was very rave-like, minus the drugs.

Apparently, the show, "Queer Alternative" has been bought and the episode I'm on will air Monday Nov. 6th. Check it out.

ALLISON'S AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION JOURNAL FEATURE

You’ve Never Seen Anyone Like Allison Margolin — Could YouTube Be for You, Too?

By Peter Darling

When we think of lawyers in the movies, a few standouts automatically pop to mind. There's Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, the crusading lawyer of To Kill a Mockingbird. Tracy and Hepburn in Adam's Rib, of course. And Tom Cruise did it twice, in A Few Good Men and The Firm. But the latest Beverly Hills film about a lawyer takes a decidedly different twist—it stars a real lawyer, it's self-produced, it's online, and it's free. is it just another Hollywood story or the future of legal marketing?

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FAREWELL DAVID CONN

David Conn, 56; prosecutor won convictions in Menendez case
By Elaine Woo, Times Staff Writer

David Conn, the former prosecutor whose successful retrying of the Erik and Lyle Menendez murder case in 1996 won accolades and then an abrupt demotion, has died. He was 56.

I Loved David Conn

ALLISON'S FRIEND KARA STEVENS GUEST BLOGS

Sixteen Layers of Make-Up


By Kara Severson


Being poor in LA is a major drag. Didn't I just read something somewhere about how there is no middle-class in LA but somehow it works for the city? Either you're a millionaire or you're starving while working 60 hours a week. I, unfortunately, am on the high-end of the latter.

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The DEA is having an anti-cannabis conference on Halloween in San Diego where they effectively shut down all medical cannabis dispensaries within the county including delivery services. Two patients have died since the closures – starvation and dehydration.The marijuana helped them eat, stay on other medications, stay alive.

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WALL STREET JOURNAL GIVES ALLISON SOME INK

Weeds, Esq.?
Posted by Peter Lattman

Allison Margolin calls herself Los Angeles’s “dopest attorney.” The 28-year-old graduate of Beverly Hills High, Columbia University and Harvard Law School has her own blog and promotional video on YouTube. Today, the Los Angeles Times helps her cause with a colorful profile of the ambitious young criminal defense lawyer. “I plan to make a lot of money,” she tells the LAT.

Margolin aggressively promotes her practice on radio advertisments, movie screens, and newspapers around L.A. “Need warrant recalled?” her ads ask. “Want to smoke pot on probation? All criminal defense, from drugs to murder. Harvard Law, affordable.”

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LA OBSERVED ON ALLISON- SHE'S BACK!

(Kevin Roderick over at LA Observed gave me some added exposure for my upcoming ad that will appear Wednesday, October 18th in the Onion)

Monday, October 16 2006

She's back

With the demise of the Los Angeles Alternative in print form, Allison Margolin needed a new place to advertise her services as L.A.'s Dopest Attorney. She found one. Ads for the city's most media-famous, Harvard trained, dope-smoking, Playboy-aspiring defense lawyer start running in The Onion beginning Wednesday. She has updated her look a bit and added a new slogan: "Get to know an attorney like never before"

BUSH BRINGS BACK MARTIAL LAW

By Allison Margolin



Today is the craziest day in news because President Bush has admitted what some of us already knew: that this nation is under martial law and it's getting worse. President Bush announced that he wants and will ask congress to agree that convictions based on coerced evidence is admissible. In the words of the article in today's LA Times, Bush's Plan Allows Coerced Evidence, A1, this system is "military style."
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